Sunday, November 18, 2012

Construction and Infrastructure Booms Foretell Terraced Garden Growth

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Great Diwali or Is it Another Dewalia



Diwali is indeed the festival of lights and colors in most parts of India. The resplendent colorful decoration as well as the showy dresses that folks wear is a delightful experience for any beholder. As legend says the all powerful evil force in the form of Narakasura (Demon) has been ultimately destroyed on this day by the Lord Vishnu.

Yet one wonders whether everything around speaks the essence of Diwali or are there still a sizable part of the population trying to eke out a living. What about those that are already seeing the dark sides of the evil of which they have neither designed nor have seen it coming. Many of these innocent lots must have declared ‘Dewalia’ instead of Diwali. The word ‘Dewalia’ means bankruptcy in Hindi as they would say in the northern parts of the country while Diwali means festival of lights. If somebody becomes bankrupt they might say ‘Bhukharam ko Dewalia ghoshid kar diya gaya’. It means that Bhukaram has been declared bankrupt.

Let’s not hope too pessimistically about such bad turn of events as this is a good day. But one cannot help wondering with negative IIP data, Export sluggishness and industrial production falling below expectation whether we should take things a little more seriously. 

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Word Secularism is Now Synonymous with Hostility



Secularism in the modern sense has less meaning due to the frequency at which it is occurring and the way it is being used to place an argument before the public. The actual literary meaning has been lost and buried in the casualness of general behavior and the loose talk that go around it. There are people who even think that the word ‘secularism’ is itself assumed a biased tone in it.

Hence, it is no wonder that word ‘secularism’ is being used with different connotation in today’s politics. Thus, there is need for urgent change in the manner in which it being spoken and read. As is seen nowadays secularism in the modern sense should therefore mean recognizing the merits only of differentiation between communities as a positive cultural difference that could be exchanged among various groups to foster a better lifestyle and well being. It is apparent that there should be no thrust from one cultural group on another and each group entity remains apart only on their religious beliefs and nothing else.

We are unnecessarily trying to make the whole of mankind into a homogeneous lot which obviously brings a lot of friction to the fore and is wastage of energy. Rather, we ought to change the levels of perceptions of people to a common positive ground on economic, society goals, education of the masses, improving living conditions, gender equality and increasing the overall health and sanitation. By focusing on these we take religion as an individual effort to spiritual solution.

I had stated that the world today is a linguistically and religiously a divided wonderland in my article Mystery of the Mysterious Inflation and  Organic and Inorganic Growth which you can assess at www.econobusichange.blogspot.in

It is utterly irritating to hear the noise ‘secularism’ every now and then.